--- title: Geniuses in Love: Mensa and Match.com Partner For a New Dating Site description: The popular dating site teams up with the genius organizations to bring intelligent singles together. canonical: https://time.com/2927179/geniuses-in-love-mensa-and-match-com-partner-for-a-new-dating-site/ author: Hannah Goldberg article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-26T18:25:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:33.528Z og:title: Intelligence is Sexy: Mensa and Match.com Partner in A New Dating Venture og:description: The popular dating site teams up with the oldest genius society to bring intelligent singles together. og:url: https://time.com/2927179/geniuses-in-love-mensa-and-match-com-partner-for-a-new-dating-site/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f7b2ee83633604f/69869975adae447d74543e65/heart-petrie-dish.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Heart in a petrie dish og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Intelligence is Sexy: Mensa and Match.com Partner in A New Dating Venture twitter:description: The popular dating site teams up with the oldest genius society to bring intelligent singles together. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f7b2ee83633604f/69869975adae447d74543e65/heart-petrie-dish.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Geniuses in Love: Mensa and Match.com Partner For a New Dating Site by [Hannah Goldberg](https://time.com/author/hannah-goldberg/) ## Hannah Goldberg Jun 26, 2014 6:25 PM UTC  Valentine in the lab Valentine in the labGetty Images by [Hannah Goldberg](https://time.com/author/hannah-goldberg/) ## Hannah Goldberg Jun 26, 2014 6:25 PM UTC Mensa, the society for people with high IQ, and Match.com are teaming up to create a new dating site for highly intelligent people, reports [Match.com](http://blog.match.com/mensa-match). According to Match, smart is attractive: More than 80% of singles claim a partner’s equal or higher intelligence is a “must have” or “very important.” “Why do we want a smart partner? Because intelligence is correlated with many benefits, including: higher income; sense of humor; creativity; social skills; coordination; and problem solving. These are sexy,” said Match’s Chief Scientific Advisor Dr. Helen Fisher in an [online statement](http://blog.match.com/mensa-match). The new site only allows users that match Mensa’s requirement of an IQ in above the 98% of the general population. According to [Mensa](https://www.mensa.org/), there are plenty of brainy fish in the sea: an estimated 6 million Americans are eligible to become a part of the organization which now has 57,000 members. Super smart singles are encouraged to put their best mind forward; through July 6th, Match is inviting them to take the Mensa Home Test for $1 to see if they qualify for this genius opportunity. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2927179/geniuses-in-love-mensa-and-match-com-partner-for-a-new-dating-site/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2927179/geniuses-in-love-mensa-and-match-com-partner-for-a-new-dating-site/"},"headline":"Geniuses in Love: Mensa and Match.com Partner For a New Dating Site","datePublished":"2014-06-26T18:25:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:33.528Z","description":"The popular dating site teams up with the genius organizations to bring intelligent singles together.","url":"https://time.com/2927179/geniuses-in-love-mensa-and-match-com-partner-for-a-new-dating-site/","keywords":["Living","Innovation","Dating","Love & Relationships","intelligence","Website","genius"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f7b2ee83633604f/69869975adae447d74543e65/heart-petrie-dish.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Hannah Goldberg","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/hannah-goldberg/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f7b2ee83633604f/69869975adae447d74543e65/heart-petrie-dish.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Heart in a petrie dish","caption":"Heart in a petrie dish","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2927179/geniuses-in-love-mensa-and-match-com-partner-for-a-new-dating-site/","name":"Geniuses in Love: Mensa and Match.com Partner For a New Dating Site"}}]}] ```